Printing device



y 1931- B. z. MCCAIN ET AL 1,812,389

PRINTING DEVICE Filed Feb. 6, 1928 JOHN DOE STATE ST.

CHICAGO ILL.

' java/225w w Vi -M d Patented July 7, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BENJAMIN Z. MCCAIN, 013 DAR PARK, AND HEB-BERT L. TI-IQMPSON, CF ELGIN, ILLINOIS,

ASSIGNORS TO ADDRESSOGRAPH COMPANY, OF XVILMINGTON, DELAWARE, A GOR- PRINTING DEVICE Application filed February 6, 1928.

This invention relates to printing devices of that class which are adapted to be stored in upright position in a tray or drawer, or stacked in a pile, and run through an address '5 ing or other printing machine for taking impressions therefrom.

The object of the invention is to provide a printing device having a large information I card which may be readily engaged with or disengaged from the printing plate and which will not interfere with the travel of the de vice through the printing machine.

And another object is to provide a strong and stiff information card of large area but light in weight, having flexible means for engaging it with the printing plate, and which will not increase the thickness of the printing plate.

In the accompanying drawings we have shown a selected embodiment of the invention in which Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the printing device.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the printing device.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, 4 is the printing plate which is made of metal suitable to permit printing characters 5 to be embossed thereon. The plate is provided on its back with a bead 6 at its lower edge and with flanges 7 at its'side edges which serve to stiffen and strengthen the plate, to space plates when stored in a tray or a stack to protect the face of the type characters and to form retainer means for the arms of the card frame. The lower end of each flange is bent to form an end wall 8. Each end of the plate is cut out at 9 through the flange. The upper edge of the plate is cut and bent to form lips 10 of suitable length, one of which, as the middle one, may be offset slightly relatively to the others.

The card 11 is made of paper or light cardboard and it is mounted on a light frame 12 preferably made of wire and having flexible arms 13 projecting below the card and terminating in outwardly directed hooks 14. Q The top andside edges 15 of the card are fold- Serial No. 252,148.

shown, to provide desired strength and rigidi?! and to'avoid making the card and frame A. U bulky.

The card may be readily engaged with the plate by squeezing the arms and engaging them with the flanges, after which the card a is pushed down until the lower edge thereof engages the lips 10 and the hooks ltengage the end walls 8. Thus the card is locked to the plate by the hooks and held in rigid position projecting in the plane of the plate from the top thereof by the frame, the retainer flanges and the lips. The folded edges of the card are not thicker than the beaded lower edge or the flanged side edges of the plate so that the addition of the card does 1 not increase the thickness of the printing device as a whole The card may be made of any desired size suitable for the purpose and it enables a record to be kept of a great deal of information suitable for many different kinds of business. For classification purposes and ready reference an impression of the printing plate form may be made at the top of the card. The card may be easily disengaged from the plate for transfer to another plate, for replacement, or for any other purpose by squeezing the arms at the cut outs 9 and then separating the card from the plate.

form suitable for the purposes intended but we reserve the right to make any changes therein in the form, construction and arrangement of parts within the scope of the following claims:

We claim:

1. The combination of a printing plate having retainer means at the side edges thereof, a frame having flexible arms adapted to be detachably engaged with said retainer means, and a card carried by said frame.

2. The combination of a printing plate having retainer means at its side edges, a card, and a frame engaged with the card and adapted to be detachably engaged with said We have shown the invention in a simple retainer meansto support the, card on the plate and projecting from the top of the plate.

The combination of a printing plate 7 having retainer means at its side edges, a' card, and-awire frameengaged With the card and having arms to engage said retainer means. I

f The combination of a printing plate 10 having'retainer means at its side edges, a

card, and adonb'led Wire frame engagedvvith the card and having arms to engage said retainer means. r

5. The combination ofaprinting plate having retainer means at its -sideedges, a card, 7

and a Wire frame engaged. ith the top and side margins of the card'and having arms to engage saidretainerimeans, i

6. The combination of a printing plate having retainermea-ns atitsside edges, a

- card, a.frame-,engagedfwith said cardv and I having flexible arms to engage said retainer means,and hooks on'theendsof said arms. 7 v c v 7. The combination of a printing plate V V I 5 having retainerm'eans-at its side edges, a

card, frameengagedwith said card and having flexible arms 'to engage said retainer 'means, and'hooks; on the ends of said arms, saidfplatebe'ing' ctit out at its side' margins to permit'the arms topbesqneezed for disengaging the hooks from. the retainer means. -8.-,'The combination of a printing plate having 'retainerumeans thereon, a card, a frame engaged With the-card and adapted to 'engage'said retainer meansj 'and lips on the topedge of the plate to receive-the lower edge of the card. i

'9fThe combination of a printing plate having retaining meansthereon, a frame, a card having its top and side margins folded overand aflixed to the frame, and arms projecting from the bottom of the frame to engage said retaining means. f 1OUA printing device comprising a card, arms on the card projecting from one edge thereof, and a printing plate having retain ing means to receive saidarms for detachably connecting the card and plate.

11. A, printing device comprisinga card member and a printing plate member, one of I said members having arms projecting from oneiedge thereof and the other member having retaining means to receive said arms for detachably connecting the members.

12. A printing device comprising atcard member and a printing plate member, arms o'n oneof said members projecting from one edge thereof, and retaining means on the other 7 member adaptedto receive said arms fordee0 tach-ably connecting the members With their opposing edges in abutting relation and their front faces in substantially the same plane. v

' BENJAMIN Z. MCCAIN.

HERBERT L. THOMPSON. 

